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CHARLES JEAN MARIE BARBAROUX (1767-1794)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 383 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:JEAN See also:MARIE See also:BARBAROUX (1767-1794)  , See also:French revolutionist, was educated at first by the Oratorians of See also:Marseilles, then studied See also:law, and became a successful See also:advocate . He was appointed secretary (greffier) to the See also:commune of Marseilles, and in 1792 was commissioned to go to the Legislative See also:Assembly and demand the See also:accusation of the See also:directory of the See also:department of Bouches-du-See also:Rhone, as See also:accomplice in a royalist See also:movement in See also:Arles . At See also:Paris he was received in the Jacobin See also:club and enfered into relations with J . P . See also:Brissot and the Rolands . It was at his instigation that Marseilles sent to Paris the See also:battalion of See also:volunteers which contributed to the insurrection of the loth of See also:August 1792 against the See also:king . Returning to Marseilles he helped to repress a royalist movement at See also:Avignon and an ultra-Jacobin movement at Marseilles, and was elected See also:deputy to the See also:Convention by 775 votes out of 776 voting . From the first he posed as an opponent of the See also:Mountain, accused See also:Robespierre of aiming at the See also:dictator-See also:ship (25th of See also:September 1792), attacked See also:Marat, and proposed to break up the commune of Paris . Then he got the See also:act of accusation against See also:Louis XVI. adopted, and in the trial voted for his See also:death " without See also:appeal and without delay." During the final struggle between the See also:Girondists and the Mountain, he refused to resign as deputy and rejected the offer made by the sections of Paris to give hostages for the arrested representatives . He succeeded in escaping, first to See also:Caen, where he organized the See also:civil See also:war, then to See also:Saint-Emilion near See also:Bordeaux, where he wrote his Memoires, which were published in 1822 by his son, and re-edited in 1866 . Discovered, he attempted to shoot himself, but was only wounded, and was taken to Bordeaux, where he was guillotined when his identity was established . See Ch .

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Charlotte See also:Corday et See also:les Girondins (Paris, 1873) ; A . See also:Aulard, Les Orateurs de la Legislative et de la Convention (Paris, 2nd ed., 1906) .

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